Museum Hours (movie)

Last November, Jem Cohen's Vienna-set film "Museum Hours" made its modest premiere in Chicago. Some were restless with it. Others fell under its spell. Count me among those happy to see it return for an encore one-week theatrical run beginning Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center. The following is a distillation of the Nov. 15 Tribune review.

"Museum Hours" relays the story of an unlikely friendship that arises, as so many friendships do, out of the ether of happenstance. We're introduced to Johann, played by a splendidly serene nonactor, Robert Sommer, as he speaks to us in voice-over of his job as a guard at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, a grand...

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